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News & Current Events Apr 7, 2026 at 10:08 AM

Cheng Li-wun: Taiwan opposition Kuomintang leader visits China for expected meeting with Xi Jinping

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Cheng Li-wun: Taiwan opposition Kuomintang leader visits China for expected meeting with Xi Jinping
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Cheng Li-wun: Taiwan opposition Kuomintang leader visits China for expected meeting with Xi Jinping
Cheng Li-wun said she "gladly accepted" Xi Jinping's invitation and hopes to be a "bridge for peace".
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PeppyBunnyx Apr 7, 2026 +40
Chiang Kai shek is spinning so fast in his grave right now that he could generate enough electricity to power the entire island of Taiwan
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Germanpaddyo Apr 8, 2026 +10
Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese nationalist who would hate to see the eternal separation of Taiwan from the mainland. China isn't even Maoist anymore and is a great power. What exactly would Chiang Kai-shek disapprove of here?
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existancebytruth Apr 7, 2026 +18
The historical irony of the Kuomintang buddying up to the CCP after fighting a decades-long civil war against them is absolutely wild
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Hot_Cheesecake_905 Apr 8, 2026 +3
The KMT are Chinese nationalists, so ultimately they share a one-China vision as the CCP. The KMT want to maintain their cultural and historical link to the mainland. There are actually factions of the KMT in the CCP - the RCCK. The RCCK was the left-wing arm of the KMT that stayed behind after the civil war.
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MagnaClarentza Apr 7, 2026 +5
The irony. Though there are similar parties/factions like this in history, and also currently.
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ficis Apr 7, 2026 +4
“Brick not hit back”
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BreathPuzzleheaded80 Apr 7, 2026 +15
Chiang Kai shek was a patriot. He definitely hate the DPP Taiwan separatists more than the communists today.
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bigbadspacedandy Apr 7, 2026 -2
He was a fascist dictator who treated the Taiwanese people worse than the Japanese. At least the Japanese built infrastructure. The KMT just stole land and slaughtered people on mass. 
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Hot_Cheesecake_905 Apr 8, 2026 +3
The Japanese used Taiwan as a model economy, the Japanese were not altruistic.
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taisui Apr 8, 2026 -2
This doesn't make it less ironic to the modern KMT
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AspectSpiritual9143 Apr 8, 2026 +7
KMT and CPC fought Japanese before, nothing irony to fight their spiritual successor.
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taisui Apr 8, 2026 -3
Lol go read a book or two. CKS greatly admired the Japanese and he wanted to exterminate the CPP first.
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AspectSpiritual9143 Apr 8, 2026 +5
i read the book and it said china was on the side of ally, and japan was on the side of axis. they fought japan together
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taisui Apr 8, 2026 -4
"together" lol Even Mao himself denied that.
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John_Mark_Corpuz_2 Apr 7, 2026 +12
Find it ironic how the Koumintang, the very faction that lost mainland China to the CCP and retreated to Taiwan, is now the one that's being close to the CCP.
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kobemustard Apr 7, 2026 +18
I’ve always thought a united China was the goal for kmt and ccp. The question was who was going to be in charge.
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IndieDevLove Apr 8, 2026 +8
The chinese nationalist party who first unified China after the Qing is against China's seperation?!
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Germanpaddyo Apr 8, 2026 +6
How anybody can be surprised at this is truly shocking to me.
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Hot_Cheesecake_905 Apr 8, 2026 +6
Many Listnookors know very little about Chinese history, only what they see on TV.
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woolcoat Apr 7, 2026 +7
"The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide"
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Hot_Cheesecake_905 Apr 8, 2026 +1
It's like a family feud, they may hate each other, but they do not deny they are not Chinese. Those views have softened over time of course.
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0belvedere Apr 7, 2026 +1
*Kuo-
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